Thanksgiving

Joshua enjoyed his first Thanksgiving feast. Emily loved indulging in just olives and pickles for dinner. She picked what she wanted and dove right into the olive bowl. She truly is her daddy's daughter for that one :o)
We also had a very impressive sun set, which happened at about 4:30pm!

Nana

I talked to Will about the glasses, and he said it was from Top Shelf, with the people on the stem. Here are the pictures of Emily's butterflies and the Advent Calendar. We are doing a pair of socks a day, since she is so focused on symmetry and doesn't understand why she can't "match" today. She loves it though and it will be a great tradition as the years go on. She got CANDY!!! Today and a darling beaded bracelet. The star can be white with blue edges or it can be all blue, there is a variety in the pack, but it is called Wallies, glow in the dark stars.

NAKED BABY!!!!!!

Joshua is so cute and cuddly, just like his sister! I couldn't resist this little munchkin after bathtime. The picture of him with his mouth open is how he gives kisses, big and slobbery, but very well worth it.














Here are some pictures of Joshua touching the Christmas tree that he is not supposed to be touching. . . . what a battle this is!

Our Little Monkey

Well, Joshua is quite the climber! He managed to make it ontop of the coffee table. He also climbs up the stairs on the OUTSIDE of them, hanging onto the rail. The first time he did it he got to the third one up - yikes! I just turned around and found him. The marble stairs and floor is what makes me nervous. He just love to move those little legs. Emily is a great sport about it. She will tell me all the time to come and see what he is doing. What a helper! She had some fun of her own today. We usually use papertowels as napkins, but Emily uses so many of them I broke down and bought a package of napkins. While I was putting away the groceries, she has opened up the napkins and found a basket to put them in. She decided and told us that it will be the "napkin basket." We thought it was cute that she was having so much fun and left her once the groceries were away. A little bit later, when Joshua had gotten up from his nap, I went back to the kitchen to make him a bottle. Emily had a masterpiece in the making! We couldn't resist to giggle at the creativity she had. What I find really interesting about it is that the unfolded napkins are pretty much the same size as a square, so that is good development matching things up :o)

More Germany

Here are a few pictures of Germany. We saw some amazing sunsets while were were there. We were on the top of a mountian so that made for some really nice views of the sunset.

Lovely Lemons

We were able to eat at Chili's while we were in Germany - Yummy. As far as American franchise restaurants go . . . .We enjoyed pretending we were on 79th & Bell :o) Joshua ate a lemon then decided it wasn't so bad ~

Germany

Here We Go!

Are we rhere YET????
Emily is getting Grumpy

I thought this was a funny ad. Only Steph can tell us what it says

We have a temporary signal through our neighbor. Hopefully our internet woes will be resolved next week, while we are in Germany. I have a few cute pictures of the kids. We are doing well, currently battling potential ear infections - one per kid!! So, prayers please, we have an 11 hour bus ride on Monday.

Will's work and school are going well and keeping him busy. We are looking forward to our "vacation" next week. We are going to leave 10/23 and returning 10/31

Stairs

Joshua discovered the stairs a few weeks ago. He is really good at them now. He loves to climb them, it is hard to keep up with him some days.

Soccer

Emily finally played soccer. She had a pretty good time with the practice portion of the session. The game was really funny. She kept saying that she doesn't have a ball and there was just one. It was interesting to me because we always say to share and now I am telling her to go get the ball . . . what's a mom to do?